Doll support



B. H. SCOTFORD.

DOLL SUPPORT.

APPLICATION HLED JULY 30,1920.

Patented Feb. 21, 1922.

earths stares time rarest BARON HENRY SCOTFORD, OF ATLANTIC CITY, NEW JERSEY.

DOLL SUPPORT.

Lam 58a.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 21, 1922.

Application filed July 30, 1920. Serial No. 400,070.

' a Doll Support, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to supports for dolls, and particularly to supports for holding in an upright or standing-position figure dolls of the general ty as commonly termed paper dolls or cut-out gure dolls.

The objects of my invention are the provision of a convenient and effective stand or support for dollsfl of the above-mentioned type, which may be formed from a flat piece of material, which may be easily and quickly attached to or detached from a doll, and which will be so simple in construction and manner of application and use as to permit a child to place the device in position for supporting a cut-out or paper doll.

In the accompanying drawing, wherein the same reference numerals designate like parts in the several Views,

Figures 1 and 2 are respectively front and back perspective views of my support as it appears in use, attached to a doll,

Figure 3 is an enlarged side elevational View of the upper portion of the doll and support illustrated in Figures 1 and 2, showing the attaching means in detail, and

Figure 4 is a front elevational. view of one other form or type of garment adapted to be used on the doll in connection with the suport. p My support is designed and adapted to be used with dolls or figures of various shapes and formed of either stiff or semi-flexible material. In the drawings there is shown, by way of example, a cut-out figure doll 1 of ordinary shape and form, such as is commonly cut out of a much larger sheet or blank, but which may, if desired, be cut or stamped out separately from a blank of substantially the same size as the finished doll.

In the particular form of doll illustrated the arms 2 of the doll are cut around their outlines sufiiciently to give them a hinged connection with the body of the doll, and enable them to be moved out of the plane of the doll body and inserted in slits 3 in the garment 4, as shown in Fig. 1, to aid in lgoipling the garment in position upon the co Any ordinary or usual type of doll garment 4, made of paper, cardboard, or other suitable material, may be used. In the type shown in Fig. 1, the garment is secured in position upon the doll by means of the passage of the arms 2 of the doll through the slits 3, in conjunction with the bending of the tabs 5 over the edges of the doll.

In other well-known forms of doll garments, there are no slits for the arms the doll and the garment is fastened to the doll solely by .means of a plurality of flexible lugs or tabs similar to tabs 5, arranged at certain selected and effective positions upon the edge of the garment as in Fig. 4. My invention is well adapted for use with these, and other, forms of dolls and doll clothing, the support being applicable to any form of paper doll or cut-out figure doll. The device is best adapted, however, to a paper doll or cut-out doll having a cut-out doll garment detachably secured thereto in the usual manner.

The stand or support 6 is preferably made of a single piece of stiff paper or thin cardboard, and preferably formed with integral flexible tabs 7. It may, however, be made of thin sheet metal or any other suitable ma terial, and may also be formed of thicker, stiffer material, and the tabs, instead of being integral with the body of the support, may be separate pieces of flexible material pasted or otherwise fastened to the support, preferably at or near its upper end.

The support is attached to the doll by means of these tabs, which are preferably bent over the edge of the doll and inserted.

between the doll 1 and the doll garment 4, as clearly shown in Figs. 2 and 3. In this form of attachment, the upper portion of the support overlies the bent-over garment tabs 5. When the garment tabs 5 and the support tabs 7 are in their respective bentover positions, the parts are in a sort of interlocked relation, the garment 4t acting to lock the support tabs 7 and hold the support in position and the support 6 similarly acting to lock the garment tabs 5 and hold the garment 4 in place.

While the support is illustrated in the drawings as extending to and engaging the doll at its shoulder portion, the precise length of the sup-port and its point of attachment are unimportant, since other forms of support may be used which are shorter and attached to the doll at points considerably lower than the shoulder portion, without lessening their efiiciency. In any case, however, better results are obtained if the garment tabs 5 and the support tabs 7 are sufficiently close together to effectively accoin plish the interlocking action above described.

The support 6 is shown in the drawings as broader at its lower end than at its upper end, for the purpose of increasing'the bility of the support, but sufiicient stability is usually present without this broadening of the base of the support, which may, if dc sired, be made of uniform, or substantially uniform width.

It will of course be understood that the term dolls, employed throughout the specification, is'intended to include every shape and description of cut-out figure which is used, or might be used, by children as dolls, whether said figures are reproductions of human beings, animals, or other objects, my support being adapted to be used with all of such cut-out figures.

I claim:

1. In combination, a cut-out figure doll, a cut-out garment for said doll provided with means for removably attaching it to the doll, a support for said doll, means for re- 2.111 combination, a cut-out figure doll, a

cut-0ut garment for said doll removably attached to the front thereof, a supporting member for said doll at the back thereof, and means for detachably securing said supportmember to said doll, said means comprising a plurality of tabs attached to said supporting member and inserted between said doll and said doll-garment.

3. In combination, a cut-out doll, a cutout garment removably fastened to the front thereof by flexible tabs attached to said garment and bent over the edge of said doll, a supporting memberin hinged relation to said doll at the back thereof, said supporting member overlying said bent-over garment tabs and itself provided with flexible tabs bent over the edge of said doll and inserted between said doll and said dollarment, whereby said garment isheld in place upon said doll and said supporting member is held BARON HENRY soorronn. 

